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Ireland's Child Care Institutions during the 20th. Century. Fo'T: The most vivid and passionate stories - banished babies, cruel orphanages, old abuses of power - have concerned things that went unnoticed, or at least unarticulated, at the time. News has often had to be redefined, not as the latest sensation but as that which everybody knew all along yet could not say.

Monday, April 01, 2024

The Light

The deepening shadows of the twilight lenghtened encroached and overtook the fading rays of the sinking Sun. I stood bereft without light for a time then beheld the twinkling lights above my head. Consoling me. Light had not vanished from my world.

The Witnesses

All the lost days down the years confined in claustrophobic dank dismal darkness And the walls didn't speak nor the windows watch there were no ears to listen or eyes to see Yet those walls those windows wept Deaf Mute Blind Witnesses